[Before Stuart bought it in 1972, it was owned by Frank Wade for 12 years.] [cite web]
url=http://obit.brinsfieldecholsfuneral.com/obit_display.cgi?id=450819&listing=All
title=Memorial Obituaries — Charles Edward Stuart
publisher=Brinsfield Echols Funeral Home
date=August 19, 2007] [cite web
url=http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=news&refno=180&category=News%2C%20Reviews%20%26%20Commentary
title=Nixon White House Staffer, Charles Stuart, Dies at 69
publisher=The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation
accessdate=2007-10-05] Miss Olivia Floyd
The Maryland archives (and some less reliable sources) appear to show that Rose Hill Farm (with the manor) was sold to Ignatius Semmes, but do not provide a clear story, i.e., whether it was to the elder Semmes (born 1773 [O'Rourke, pp 12.] ), or the younger (born 1821 [cite web
url=http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/charles/cemeteries/carmel.txt
title=The Early Nineteenth Century Burials at Mount Carmel, Maryland
author=Sister Miriam John+, OCD, Discalced Carmelite Nuns, Carmel of Port Tobacco
accessdate=2007-10-19
File modified October 7, 2000. It lists dates on gravestones 1778-1826 and 1821-1843 for the elder and younger Ignatius Semmes. See external link to St. Ignatius Church which shows worn gravestones (1773 may be read as 1778).] ), and when this took place (from 1804 to the early 1820s). Another Gustavus Brown is mentioned more than once in the same area, up to 1826. But the archives do show that older Semmes died in 1826, and the younger Semmes died in 1843, willing the property to his uncle and aunt (Holmes and Semmes) and her children.
Olivia Floyd was one of the latter.She is best known as a Confederate agent. [cite web
url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=1172
title=Rose Hill
publisher=The Historical Marker Database
date=June 17, 2007] [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=__8DOgISSuEC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=%22olivia+floyd%22&source=web&ots=6ost2pvtQE&sig=f_uSmHwJb8Dy6VRv660B1KR_uus
title=Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Crusaders and Others
author=Larry G. Eggleston
publisher=McFarland & Company
date=2003] [The Maryland Historical Trust web page states that Olivia Floyd was a descendent of Gustavus Brown.] [cite web
url=http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1201.html
title=Miss Olivia Floyd
author=John T. Marck
publisher=About Famous People
accessdate=2007-10-05]
The Blue Dog
Port Tobacco, which is at the bottom of Rose Hill, is a town.In contrast, Rose Hill Road (which is outside Port Tobacco) passes a few widely scattered houses.
Notes
References
*cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lncOLHYhcrsC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22rose+hill%22+%22charles+county%22&source=web&ots=VFRKYBL7F7&sig=lhDyl9i7IKEvilOMJIhvHjMquFA
title=Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State
last=Arnett
first=Earl
coauthors=Dr. Robert J Brugger, Edward C. Papenfuse
publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press
date=1999
*cite web
url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-halloween-ghost8,0,1078963,full.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
title=Washington stayed here, as does loyal dog's ghost
last=Hayden
first=Faith
publisher=Baltimore Sun
date=September 29, 2002
accessdate=2007-10-05
*cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UdmSjW-iLYEC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22ignatius+semmes%22&source=web&ots=pQYnN3jA4M&sig=YV3Xfx7-173-A0H91QKkI6wQc-Q
title=Catholic Families of Southern Maryland
last=O'Rourke
first=Timothy J.
publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company
date=1985
accessdate=2007-10-19
*cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=81odAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=%22rose+hill%22+charles+county&source=web&ots=H_MZVESFYH&sig=HyhcvgHoo3gohdj5g_3mDxnSMfI
title=Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia
last=Ridgely
first=Helen West
publisher=The Grafton press
date=1908
*cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9YEjAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA750&lpg=RA1-PA750&dq=%22gustavus+r+brown%22&source=web&ots=bN0kmQirXq&sig=lha6IbK03UgfmT65ojqtlGL72GY
last=Scharf
first=John Thomas
title=History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day
publisher=John B. Piet
date=1879
*cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CMULAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=gustavus+%22rose+hill%22&source=web&ots=h6TDQeW6ov&sig=gmpu12eJMjQig-71gU1MvyHhOiU
last=Wilstach
first=Paul
title=Potomac Landings
publisher=Doubleday, Page & Company
date=1921
*cite web
url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Rose+Hill,+Rose+Hill+Road,+Port+Tobacco+vicinity,+Charles+County,+MD))
title=MD0347 — Rose Hill, Rose Hill Road, Port Tobacco vicinity, Charles County, MD
publisher=Historic American Buildings Survey
accessdate=2007-10-01
*cite web
url=http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=141&FROM=NRMapCH.html
title=National Register Listings in Maryland
publisher=Maryland Historical Trust
accessdate=2007-10-04
External links
* [http://www.csmd.edu/Library/SMSC/VeWebsite/exhibit1/vexid1.htm Lists several photographs of Rose Hill]
* [http://www.csmd.edu/Library/SMSC/VeWebsite/exhibit1/e10092a.htm Description and photograph of Betty's Delight]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wboswell/cemeteries/chapel_pt.html St. Ignatius Catholic Church, St. Thomas Manor Chapel Point, Maryland]
